The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
JAMES MADISONThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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